Transgender surgeries have become one of the most contentious issues in politics. Will the Supreme Court step in to settle the debate?

From Daily Caller. As multiple federal courts have issued various rulings on the legality of child sex bans, legal experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation that the Supreme Court is likely to take up the issue.

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In Tennessee, Alabama, and Kentucky, federal courts have upheld child sex change bans, while bans in other states, such as Arkansas, have been struck down. The arguments against the bans are often derived from the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of the 14th Amendment, but those arguments aren’t likely to survive on the Supreme Court level, where challenges to the bans are likely headed, legal experts told the DCNF.

“The next stop is the Supreme Court,” Sarah Perry, a senior legal fellow for the Heritage Foundation, told the DCNF.

The circuit splits at the Appeals level of the court system all but guarantee that a child sex change lawsuit will find its way to the Supreme Court, Perry explained. …

If one of the lawsuits makes its way to the Supreme Court, it will face a few legal hurdles.

The Supreme Court is unlikely to rule in favor of the claim that preventing children from getting sex change surgery is unconstitutional, Thomas Jipping, a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation, told the DCNF.

“They will be properly cautious about creating an individual right under the 14th Amendment that isn’t there,” Jipping told the DCNF. …

“Dobbs has changed the playing field by insisting on the text, history and tradition test in the case of Due Process,” Roger Brooks, senior counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom and co-counsel for the Alabama sex-change case, told the DCNF. …

At the heart of the argument that preventing children from getting sex change surgeries, which often involves genital removal, as opposed to children with defects that require getting their genitals removed, is the fact of whether or not they are “similarly situated,” Jipping explained.

“The medical care that the second person needs in your hypothetical is known, and it’s not novel, new, or unapproved by the FDA,” Jipping told the DCNF. …

Another issue with the 14th Amendment arguments is that transgender persons are not a “suspect class,” or a group of people likely to experience discrimination, Perry told the DCNF.

“A number of Supreme Court precedents in recent years have emphasized that the Supreme Court is not interested in creating new suspect classes,” Brooks told the DCNF. …

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(Excerpt from Daily Caller. Photo Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)